Georgia micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Port Wentworth, Georgia
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Port Wentworth runs 16.1 providers per 10,000 residents, 24 clinicians against 14,865 people, 29 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while Chatham County lenders have approved 9 healthcare files worth $8,805,500 and the nearest metro is 12 miles out.
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- Population: 14,865 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 24 across 12 fields2
- Median household income: $78,8613
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 7 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Savannah, GA, 12 miles1
- SBA healthcare approvals in the county: 9 approvals totaling $8,805,5004
What NPPES records at Port Wentworth addresses
24 providers across 12 fields, 16.1 per 10,000 residents, counted at Port Wentworth addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 7 | 4.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 4 | 2.7 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 2 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 2 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 2 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 1 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 2 | CMS [5] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 7 of the 24 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
Loan activity in Chatham County
The county file holds 9 healthcare approvals, which is a thin comparable set for anyone pricing collateral
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 9 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [4] |
| Total approved capital | $8,805,500 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [4] |
| Mean deal size | $978,389 | Dollars divided by approvals [4] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 203 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
The ratio that matters up front is 16.1 per 10,000, which decides whether a ramp schedule reads as conservative. With 9 approvals on record in Chatham County, expect a longer appraisal and a wider collateral discount. Household income of $78,861 in Port Wentworth is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Working capital term loan
- Practice acquisition
- Medical receivables factoring
- Startup and de novo
- Healthcare AR line and payroll funding
Built from what is enumerated here rather than from a national list, so a field with no presence in Port Wentworth does not appear. Availability is still a Georgia question.
What a funder reads first in Port Wentworth
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, home health, aba and autism therapy account for most of what is enumerated in Port Wentworth, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (7) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Home health (4) | Medicare certification first, Payer mix second, Days in accounts receivable third | Payroll between visit and remittance |
| ABA and autism therapy (2) | Authorized hours against delivered hours, Payer mix stability, Billing compliance history | Working capital against authorization and billing lag |
NPPES supplies the Port Wentworth counts. The reading columns describe the field in general, and no partner reviewing a Port Wentworth file is bound by them.
Port Wentworth against nearby Georgia markets
16.1 per 10,000 is the figure a neighboring town gets compared against when an appraiser prices Port Wentworth
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Wentworth (current) | 14,865 | 24 | 16.1 | |
| Pooler | 31,171 | 317 | 101.7 | 7 |
| Rincon | 11,701 | 127 | 108.5 | 7 |
| Richmond Hill | 19,839 | 234 | 117.9 | 21 |
| Hinesville | 36,583 | 249 | 68.1 | 35 |
| Statesboro | 35,226 | 417 | 118.4 | 37 |
| Jesup | 10,235 | 131 | 128.0 | 58 |
What the geography does to a Port Wentworth projection
12 miles separate Port Wentworth from Savannah, GA. Lease pricing follows Savannah, GA, while revenue stays capped by the 14,865 residents here. Median household income runs $78,861, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. No hospital operates here, so the referral sources and the call arrangement have to be named rather than assumed.
Nearby Georgia towns
- Pooler 31,171 residents
- Rincon 11,701 residents
- Richmond Hill 19,839 residents
- Hinesville 36,583 residents
- Statesboro 35,226 residents
- Jesup 10,235 residents
Questions from Port Wentworth
01How many providers practice in Port Wentworth, and in what?
NPPES lists 24 providers at a Port Wentworth practice address, 16.1 per 10,000 residents across 12 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 7 of them, 29 percent of the total, with home health next at 4. Read that as clinicians: 24 enumerations, not 24 owners.
02What does Chatham County's shortage designation change?
HRSA designates Chatham County for primary care, dental, mental health. That opens loan repayment programs for clinicians recruited into Port Wentworth and evidences a staffing ramp in a 14,865 resident market.
03Why does Chatham County show so little SBA activity?
Only 9 healthcare approvals appear for Chatham County in the published 7(a) and 504 file. Thin volume in Chatham County is a transaction count, not a verdict on borrowers here. The county still holds 203 credit intermediation establishments.
04Is Port Wentworth underwritten as part of Savannah, GA?
Savannah, GA sits 12 miles away, close enough that appraisers reach into that market for rent and resale comparables while your patient draw stays local. The comparables read Savannah, GA; the 14,865 residents set the ceiling a projection can defend.
05Is there local lending capacity in Chatham County?
County Business Patterns records 203 credit intermediation establishments in Chatham County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Port Wentworth rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
06What does the underserved designation in Chatham County support?
Chatham County carries a medically underserved designation. It evidences unmet demand behind a capacity build, and it opens recruitment programs that make a staffing line in a projection easier to defend than local wage data alone would.
Sources
- 1U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, vintage 2024
- 2CMS NPPES, monthly full replacement file
- 3U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2023, table B19013
- 4U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 5CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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